Three schools in Yuma, Ariz., were placed on lockdown Tuesday morning after police were called to investigate a report of a student possibly carrying a gun.
A spokeswoman for the Yuma Police Department told Yahoo News that officers responded to Rancho Viejo Elementary School at approximately 9:55 a.m. local time. That school, along with nearby Salida Del Sol Elementary School and WACOG Preschool were placed on lockdown, she said.
Students at Rancho Viejo Elementary were then evacuated via buses to a different location where parents could pick up their children while police conduct their investigation. Salida Del Sol Elementary School and WACOG remain locked down.
The gun threat comes amid heightened security at schools around the country following the Dec. 14 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where 26 people?including 20 children?were killed in one of the worst school massacres in U.S. history.
The lockdown also comes on the heels of a workplace shooting in Phoenix, Ariz., on Jan. 30.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/arizona-schools-lockdown-200103371.html
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